Sprout
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Will an ultrasonic cleaner harm the polycoat finish, like the kind put on a CZ?
Nope — oxidation's a chemical reaction with certain molecular events where one atom gets stuck to another atom in a particular way. The details are boring to most people. It's called oxidation because the way it occurs was discovered and first studied in chem. rxns. where oxygen is the "oxidizing agent." Think of rust. The oxide that you get is more chemically stable than a mixture of iron and oxygen in contact with each other. Water or salt solutions on iron or steel just speed up the reaction a lot. Energy is given off in the reaction as heat.I thought only oxygen oxidizes